Ludovic Saint-Yves

Ludovic Saint-Yves (18 October 1810-14 July 1869) was a member of the French Senate from the Moulins constituency. Saint-Yves sat on the right wing of the Senate, representing the conservative Bonapartists.

Biography
Ludovic Saint-Yves was born in Moulins, France on 18 October 1810, the son of a staff officer in the Grande Armee of the First French Empire. Saint-Yves became a political conservative, and he longed for a return to the rule of Napoleon I's dynasty. In 1848, he was elected to the French Senate as a member of the Bonapartists, and he pushed for a decrease in tariffs and an increase in general taxes. Saint-Yves supported the creation of the Second French Empire under Napoleon III, and he would not live to see the end of the empire.